Word: mcgovernã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...fall my father turned 20, he crisscrossed southern Ohio in his Volkswagen trying to save the world. It was 1972, and he was campaigning for George McGovern in the year when McGovern??€™s presidential bid notoriously carried only Massachusetts...
This September—almost 30 years after my father cast his futile vote for McGovern??€”I cast my first vote in the Massachusetts Democratic primary. Like my father’s before him, my candidate was an academic who got waxed by a ruthless politician. But as I closed the striped curtain on the voting booth, and again as I read election results online that night, resignation—and not my father’s optimism—dulled my disappointment. Robert Reich had lost and this, I knew, was a symptom of the grinding Massachusetts...
After his year-long sojourn in Colorado, Stone headed back home to Chicago and set up shop for McGovern??€™s presidential campaign in a storefront in the 43rd ward of Chicago, the ward where he was born...
...time, Stone was working a construction job in Washington, D.C., when he ran into McGovern??€™s son-in-law, whom Stone had met working on the New Mexico Review...
Despite his and McGovern??€™s work, the committee to which Stone had dedicated five years of his life—one a handful of times he spent more than a couple of years in one place—lost its funding...